Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That afternoon in the Stadium G. McN. Gates '27 will deliver the Ivy Oration. This will be followed by cheering and singing by the Glee Club. Then the class banner will be presented to the Class of 1930, whereupon a confetti battle will try and mask the appearance of the Stadium in a Venetian carnival atmosphere...
...clock--Stadium exercises: Ivy oration, G. McN. Gates; cheering; song by Glee Club; presentation of class banner to 1930; singing of "Fair Harvard"; confetti battle...
Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
After these exercises the class will march to the Stadium where the Ivy Oration will be given by G. McN. Gates '27. After the cheering, the Glee Club will render a brief informal program, which is to be followed by the presentation of the class banner to the Freshman Class. The singing of Fair Harvard, and the Confetti Battle will end the afternoon events...
...reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English. An excerpt...